FACTOID Outgoing Energy Is Known As Earth's 1 Sea Level Rises Are ‘Irre- Quent and Intense Across the Energy Budget
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BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI STUDENT EDITION ➤ From Jhum Cultivation ➤Teens digging on fast ➤ PSG wait in to the origin of title food and living with obe- anticipation for WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021 TODAY’S ‘Jagat Seth’, explore Messi’s joining after a Newspaper in sity. Gen Y debates if fast Education concepts of social food joints should be held tearful adieu to EDITION sciences and more responsible or not Barcelona PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 BANDRA-WORLI Earth to cross critical temp rise limit in next 20 years: IPCC SEALINK THE HEAT IS ON! At a time when the world is trying to keep the global average temperature rise within the 1.5 degree Celsius mark by the end of the century, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has dropped a bombshell in its latest report, projecting he Bandra-Worli Sealink in Mumbai that the global temperature is expected to reach or T has steel wires exceed 1.5°C of warming over the next 20 years under equal to the Earth’s circum- ference. It took a total of all scenarios. Meanwhile, South India could get 40% 2,57,00,000 man hours for more rain due to global warming, IPCC warns completion, and also weighs as much as 50,000 African ENERGY BUDGET WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF TEMP CONTINUES TO RISE? elephants CAUSING WARMING COASTAL REGIONS AND heatwaves, flooding and The balance between the incoming and ISLANDS UNDERWATER: droughts will become more fre- FACTOID outgoing energy is known as Earth's 1 Sea level rises are ‘irre- quent and intense across the energy budget. Our climate is determined versible’ for hundreds or per- world. Hot extremes have by these energy flows. When the amount haps thousands of years, the become more prevalent since $2 MILLION of energy coming in is more than the report warned. Sea levels could the 1950s, while cold events rise by around 2m by the end of have become less frequent and energy going out, the planet warms up Price of a vintage Super Mario Bros this century and 5m by 2150, less severe Virtually, all the energy in the Earth's video game that was sold recently, leading to more flooding, the AN ICE-FREE ARCTIC: breaking the record for the most- climate system comes from the sun. Only displacement of millions of peo- The Arctic is likely to be DRAMATIC LOSS OF SEA- expensive video game sale that was a tiny fraction is conducted upward from ple and a loss of land for food 2 ‘practically sea ice-free’ in LIFE: The Earth's oceans set just weeks ago. The 1985 game, the Earth's interior September at least once before will continue to warm and made for Nintendo’s original console, growing. In India, it may lead to 4 has never been opened — a rarity for 2050, UN scientists said However, the imbalance of energy flows coastal flooding in low-lying become more acidic, killing old video games, said Rob Petrozzo, due to the accumulation of greenhouse areas such as Mumbai, Chennai, EXTREME WEATHER coral reefs and harming infant one of the founders of the col- gases like carbon dioxide in the air is Kochi, Kolkata, Surat and COMMONPLACE: It is cod, blue mussels, starfish and lectibles site, Rally. An anonymous buyer purchased it, he said. causing the problem Visakhapatnam 3 'virtually certain' that sea urchins HOW EARTH GOT ITS OXYGEN-RICH A JOINT VENTURE TOWARDS A A 1987 Legend of Zelda game car- The partnership seeks to create a safe tridge that sold for $870,000 in ATMOSPHERE environment for children online and offline. 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Earth's I Newspaper in slowed rotation resulted in continuous daylight Education that kick-started bacteria into producing large amounts of oxygen, they added. Murty’s new book tells kids According to scientists, about about beauty of Earth 2.4 billion years ago, there was opular children's author Sudha Murty has come out with a CELEBRATING INDIA, OUR WAY 1 so little oxygen in the Earth’s beginners guide on the extraordinary stories about Earth. atmosphere that it could barely be ‘How the Earth Got Its Beauty’, published by Penguin Take a walk through history with us, as we tell you the measured, so no animal or plant life P Random House imprint Puffin, has illustrations by Priyanka Story of India like never before… Pachpande. 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A2Z OF CONCEPTS Mark Twain 02 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021 Beginning the journey TEACHERS, IF YOU of learning in an HAVE A CONCEPT alphabetical order, Times THAT CAN CHANGE NIE takes you through A CLASSROOM, SHARE IT ON one concept from each [email protected] subject every week WITH YOUR PHOTOGRAPH CLASSROOMS TO EXPERIENCE ZONES the nutrient content of the soil. the dried trees, shrubs and bushes to burn GEOGRAPHY and the land is ploughed immediately af- ECONOMICS Where is it followed? ter the first shower.It is believed that do- JHUM CULTIVATION More than half of the population of ing so improves the soil quality. Arunachal Pradesh is engaged in agri- Grains are sown before the arrival J CURVE culture, but only a tiny portion of the of monsoon. All sort of indigenous seeds, land is under cultivation. Although set- including cereals, pulses, vegetables and J-curve is a trendline tled agriculture, including wet-rice farm- oilseeds are just harvested periodically that shows an initial ing, has expanded considerably since the one by one. Aloss immediately fol- late 20th century, many of the hill In this system, a patch of for- Interestingly enough, once a lowed by a dramatic gain. In people continue to practise shifting est land is cleared by cutting patch of land is cultivated, they a chart, this pattern of ac- agriculture (jhum). trees, shrubs, move to another piece of tivity would follow the shape bushes. During land in the next year,and of a capital "J". How it works Rice, corn May and June, the the cycle continues. The word Jhum or Podu means shifting (maize), millet entire field is set How it works or slash and burn cultivation. It is one of and buckwheat are on fire, allowing A country’s trade balance experiences the J-curve the oldest practices of agriculture sys- among the chief effect if its currency becomes devalued. At first, tems. It is known as Jhum in Northeast- crops grown by the country’s total value of imports (goods pur- ern India, Podu in Odisha, Andhra that method. chased from abroad) exceeds its total value of ex- Pradesh and some southern Indian states. Major commercial ports (goods sold abroad), resulting in a trade deficit. JHUM CULTIVATION, also known as the slash and This form of agriculture is being prac- crops include But eventually, the currency devaluation reduces burn agriculture, is the process of growing tised by the tribals, and it is one of the oilseeds, potatoes, the price of its exports. Consequently,the country’s crops by first clearing the land of trees and controversial farming systems because level of exports gradually recovers, and the coun- vegetation and burning them thereafter. The of opinions about its impact on the en- ginger, sugarcane, try moves back to a trade surplus. J-curves are ob- burnt soil contains potash, which increases vironment.